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THE CHATHAM RECORD H. A London EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR Terms of Subscription $1.50 PER YEAR Strictly in Advance (Chittltitnt THE CHATHAM RECORD , Rates of Advertising One Square, one insertion - - $100 One Square, two insertions - $L50 One Square, one month - . HJQ r Advertisements Liberal tracts will be made. VOL. XXXIX. PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C, AUGUST 23, 1916. NO. 3. Con r IMPORTANT NEWS THE WORLD OVER Happenings of This and Other Nations For Seven Days Are Siva THE NEWS OF THE SOUTH What Is Taking Place in the South land Will Be Found In Brief Paragraphs. Domestic Blowing at seventy miles an hour i tropical storm in the Gulf of Mex co hit the Texas coast at Corpus Jhrist at Brownsville and on the in ;ermediate points. in the tropical storm at Corpus Christi, the wooden buildings of the Iowa National Guard were blown iown, the Illinois camp was under vater, the horses of the Illinois Guard ?uffered greatly from exposure, some vere lost and the roads rendered im passable. At Fort Sam Houston the Texas .ropical storm blew down the tents jf the New York National Guard, as ilso at Llane Grande, Mercedes and Mission. Thiyty thousand soldiers are sleep ing in public buildings at Fort Sam Houston as a result of the tropical storm on the Texas coast. Tlje tropical storm was accompanied by a deluge of rain, four and a half inches being registered at many points. Army officers express the fear that iarge quantities of army stores and supplies have been swept away by the tropical storm in Texas. The scope of the Texas tropical storm extended from Corpus Christl, on the north, to Tampico, Mexico, on the south. Three lives were lost in the bay at Corpus Christi, when a the steamer Pilot Boy was sunk by the high wind and raging tempest. The bodies later washed ashore. At El Paso, Texas, one soldier is reported to have lost his life, and all the soldiers encamped there are suf fering great discomfort. No lives were lost in the Lake Tox away, N. C, flood disaster. At Clemson college at Rock Hill, 3. C, the Seneca river rose nine feet due to the Lake Toxaway dam break ing, but no damage is reported. Charles E. Hughes, speaking to a female audience in Spokane, Wash., addressed them as "fellow citiaens." This is the first time since his nom ination that Mr. Hughes has addressed an audience of women. The first Georgia bale of sea island cotton, marketed at Valdosta, Ga., brought 35c a pound. Considerable damage to crops and homes is reported in North Carolina as a result of the dam at Lake Tox away giving way. The death toll resulting from a wreck on the line of the Southern Cambria Traction company seven miles from Johnstown, Pa., totals 26 people. Washington The national health conference, fearing that the disease of infantile paralysis may reappear next summer, has resolved to make a drastic fight on it. Co-operation among federal, state and local health authorities to ward curbing the disease is urged and mphasized as imperative. The dele gates to the conference express the opinion that the interchange of opin ions and experiences will result in much good. A telegram announces that no per son will be permitted to land in Aus tralia after September 1 without a passport approved by the British au thorities. A telegram announces that the Ger ma nmerchant submarine Deutschland has arrived safely at Bremen. The new army measure, because of the provision exempting retired offi cers from discipline, has been vetoed by the president. Orders for the remaining mobiliz ed units of the National Guard to proceed to the border have been sus pended by the war department. No official explanation has been made, but it is known that the delicacy of the railroad strike situation is the moving consideration. Some of the Kentucky, Ohio and Vermont troops were about ready to go to the border when the order re scinding the movement was received. Congress has virtually completed the national defense program by final ly approving the great increases in naval construction and personnel writ ten into the navy bill and urgently supported by the administration. The threatened strike of the rail ways involving two million men can now be averted only by the good of fices of the president, which controver sy has been laid before him at his own request, after the railroad work ers flatly refused to accept arbitration. The suspension of the movement of the National Guard to the border is stated to be based on the fact that the railroad situation might possibly curtail the food supply. Associate Justice Louis D. Brandeis declines to serve on the joint com mission that will attempt to settle the differences between Mexico and the United States. He says the mass of business before the Supreme court is too great for him to spare the time. The revenue measure as amended by the senate finance committee was approved in the Democratic caucus, held August 14. The Sixty-fourth congress is nearin completion, and the importance of the two hundred million dollar revenue bill is being impressed upon the lead ers of the senate. The Sixty-fourth congress when it adjourns will have exceeded the pre vious high record in appropriations by at least a half billion dollars. More than ninety million dollars for special purposes will have been appropriated by the Sixty-fourth con gress when it adjourns. European War Assaults of British and French forces north of the Somme in France have resulted in the gaining of addi tional ground by the attackers. The French have advanced in and around Maurepas, the scene of much hard fighting during the last few week. The biggest British gain recently has been in the direction of Ginchy and Guillemont, near the southern end of the Somme front. For several days there has been lit tle activity on the eastern front. Both the Russians and Austro-Ger-mans claim to be making advances in the Carpathian mountain region. The Russian claim the Austro-Ger-man attack in Galicia is bare of re sults. At one point in the Carpathians the Russians have driven across the Gall cian border line into Hunagry. It is reported in Petrograd that the Russian forces have reached the sum mit of the range near Korosmezo, Aus tria. The Russians, after a considerable period of inactivity, are moving ag gressively against the Teutonic forces in that region. Following the taking of Jablonitza, one of the chief gateways of Hungary, the Russians captured a series of heights west of Vorokhta and Adze moy. Over three hundred and fifty-eight thousand men have been taken by Russian General Brusiloff since the 4tb of June, when the offensive was inaugurated. The entente allies, after a brisk combat, have captured a line of Ger man trenches on a front of fifteen hundred meters to the north of Mau repas, in the Somme region. German trenches 1,200 meters long to the south of Belloy-en-Santerre have been captured by the British. It is stated that 750,000 Armenians have been murdered by the Turks since they entered the European Arma geddon. Officials connected with the United States government at Washington be lieve that the Turks are planning to destroy other races besides the Arme nians. The Armenian patriarchate in Tur key has been abolished by order of the Turkish government, and this is berieved to be a war of extermination against the Armenians. Before the war there were 1,750,000 Armenians in Turkey, but 750,000 are reported to have been killed and 250, 000 to have fled. As a result Arme nian power in Turkey is thought to be entirely dissipated. A new loan of $250,000,000 to Great Britain, pledged against which are se curities to the value of $300,000,000, is announced in New York. The loan is in the form of gold notes dated September 1, 1916. The British government reserves the right to' redeem the new loan placed in the United States on thirty notice at any time up to August 31, 1917, at 101 and accrued interest. According to German reports one million shells were fired by the Brit ish on the Somme front in twenty-four hours. What the losses in human life resulting from this deluge of fire is hard to estimate. The allies are fighting the Bulgari ans on a front of one hundred miles, and have captured the station at Doi ran and four villages at other points on the front. Paris reports that the Germans are taking over the defenses of Trieste, sending troops especially organized for that purpose. The Italian dreadnaught Leonardo da Vinci caught fire and blew up In the harbor of Taranto, Italy, and 300 of her crew were drowned. The da,e of the disaster is given as a day in August. The war bill of France at the end of July was 39,000,000,000 francs. The miscellaneous expenses of the govern ment were 10,000.000 francs. The average cost of the war, the figures show, is now 1,987,000,000 francs a month. The Russians have captured Jablon itza, one of the principal gateways from Russia to the Hungarian plains. Farther to the north of Galicia the Russians are continuing their drive against the Austrians with apparent ly uninterrupted success. The Russians have captured the strongly fortified town of Tustobaby, northwest of Dniester. The most notable advance was by the British who captured 300 to 400 yards over a front of nearly a mile against the Germans in the Somme re gion. The Austrians and Germans in Ga licia are still falling back before the advancing Russians. Premier Romanones of Spain con ferred with the French and Italian ambassadors and the Portuguese min isters. The meetings are considered very mysterious in diplomatic circles. There is no clue whatever to the rea son of the conferences. The Germans are holding the Rus sians on the upper Sereth. South of Brody, the Germans have checked the onrush of the Russians, and German advices are that the Teu tons have taken 300 prisoners. TWO BIG CRUISERS SUNK IN NORTH SEA BRITISH LOSE TWO CRUISFRS BY TEUTONIC SUBMARINE ATTACKS. ONE SUBMARINE DESTROYED Kaiser's High Seas Fleet Come Out But was Put Back Quickly. One German Submarine Rammed By An other, 39 Fatalities Are Result. London. Two British light cruisers, the Nottingham and Falmouuth, were sunk in Noth Sea by German sub marines while the vessels were seaching for the German high seas fleet, according to an official an nouncement by the Admiralty. One German submarine was destroyed by the British, while another was ram med and possibly sunk, according to the Admiral statement which follows: "Reports from our lookout squad rons and other units showed there was considerable activity on the part of the enemy in the North Sea on Saturday. The German high sea fleet came out, but learning from their scouts that the British forces were in considerable strngth, the enemy avoided an engagement and returned to port. "In searching for the enemy we lost two cruisers by submarine at tacks H. M. S. Nottingham, Captain C. B. Miller, and H. M. . Falmouth, Captain John Edwards. All the offi cers of the former were saved, but 38 of the crew are missing. AH the officers and men of the Falmouth were saved, but one stoker, Norman Fry, died of injuries. PRESIDENT WILSON URGES THAT PLAN BE ACCEPTED. If Strike Comes Responsibility Will Not Rest Upon Him. Washington. President Wilson ap pealed to the railroad officials to aban don their insistance on arbitration of the dispute threatening a nation-wide strike and to accept his plan of settle ment, arleady agreed to by the em ployes, because in his opinion the rail roads are contending for a principle which it seemingly is impossible to apply to the present situation. In one of the most dramatic scenes known to the White House in recent years, the President declared to the heads of five billion dollars worth of properties, assembbled at his sum mons: "If a strike comes, the public will know where the responsibil ity rests. It will not be upon me." A few minutes later he issued a statement saying, "The public has the right to expect" acceptance of his plan. Refusing acceptance for the pres ent, but not gicing a final answer. Hale Holden, president of the Bur lington roads, and spokesman for the 33 railroad officials, urged the Presi dent to uphold the principle of ar bitration, and declared his plan would "place in peril all thathas been ac complished in the peaceful adjust-, ment of labor controversies by meth ods of arbitration." FIVE NEGROES LYNCHED BY A FLORIDA MOB Gainesville, Fla. Five negroes, three men and two women, were tak en from the jail at Newberry, Fla., and hanged by a mob and another negro was shot and killed by deputy sheriffs near Jonesville, Fla., as the result of the killing of Constable S. G;Vynne and the shooting of Dr. I. G. lajrris by Boisey Long, a negro. Ifri ynched negroes were accused of akling Long to escape. Dispatches from Newberry said that the mob, which lynched the five ne groes, was composed of about 200 men and worked quietly and rapidly. Af ter gaining entrance to the jail they took the victims to a point about a mile from town and hanged all to one large oak tree. Not a shot was fired. TROPICAL STORM IN TEXAS DID MILLIONS IN DAMAGE Corpus Christi, Texas. The loss of life from the tropical storm which struck Corpus Christi and 10 adjacent Texas counties was placed at 13, in cluding nine members of the crew of the small freighter Pilot Boy, which foundered off xVrkansas Pass. The total damage in this section of which Corpus Christi bore the heaviest part was estimated at $2,000,000. This in eludes devastation of a large portion of the lower coast's cotton crop. HUNDRED SHOTS ARE EXCHANGED ON BORDER Naco, Ariz. Over a hundred shots were exchanged across the interna tional line about a mile west of here between patrols belonging to the negro National Guard from the Dis trict of Columbia and a party on the Mexican side. The soldiers said they halted some Mexicans who attempted to cross the line, in answer to the challenge the Mexicans- fired. In the fusilade that followed the only casual ty was one Mexican wounded. SENATE PASSES NEW SHIPPING BILL WILSON ADMINISTRATION SUC CEEDS AFTER HARD LEGISLA TIVE 8TRUGGLE. SENATE VOTE WAS 38 TO 21 Several Important Amendments Are Agreed to. li'll Has Already Passed House and Will Very Likely Find no Opposition in House to Amendments. Washington. The government ship ping bill passed the Senate by a vote of 38 to 21, ending one of the most bitterly contested legislative strug gles of the Wilson administration. In the last Congress the measure precipi tated a Democratic revolt and a fili buster which forced postponement of many important bills, but revised so as to minimize the government opera tion feature, received unanimous Dem ocratic support and solid Republican opposition. It already had passed the House. The shipping bill provides for cre ation of a government shipping board to acquire and operate ships for re habilitation of the American merchant marine and appropriates $50,000,000 j for the purpose to be raised by the sale I of Panama Canal bonds. Several important amendments ! were agreed to just before the final vote, among them one which would reduce the salary of the shipping board members from $10,000 tojj7,500 a year. Other amendments passed in clude one which would authorize the president to seek adjustment of foreign discrimination against American ship ping through diplomatic negotiations and to take retaliatory action if such negotiations fail. Another would authorize the treasury to withhold clearance from masters of vessels who deliberately refuse to accept freight from American citizens without satis factory reasons. ALLIES GAIN ON GERMAN CENTER IN SOMME FRONT. Another Step Made in Anglo-French Advance Toward Comfales. London. Assauults by British and French forces against German posi tions north of the Somme in France have resulted in the gaining of addi tional ground by the attackers, ac cording to the British and French War Office. The French advance was In and around Maurepas, the scene of much hard fighting during the last few weeks, and the British gain was in the direction of Ginchy and Guille mont, near the Southern end of their section of the Somme front. The Anglo-French attack London says, took place along the whole line from Pozieres to the Somme. The gains reported by Paris and London were in the center of the Ger man positions on the Somme front and mark another step in the Anglo French advance toward Combles. French troops gained more ground in the village of Maurepas, after the stopping of German counter-attacks near the village. Calvary hill, south east of the village, was carried by as sault and the French positions on the Maurepas-Clery road was also ex tended. WILSON VETOES ARMY APPRSPRIATION BILL. Washington. The Army appropria tion bill was unexpectedly vetoed by President Wilson because he would not accept certain provisions in the revision of the articles of war, forced into the bill by the House conferees and commonly said in army circles to be In the interest of certain retired officers "at outs" with the army. DEUTSCHLAND REPORTED SAFE HOME AT BREMEN Geneva, via Paris. A private tele gram received from Berlin by the Neue Zuricher Zeitung says the Ger man submarine Deutschland arrived safely at Bremen from the United States. FINAL ACTION IN HOUSE ON THE PHILIPPINE BILL Washington. Final action on the Philippine bill promising independence to the islands as soon as a stable gov ernment is established, was taken in the House when the conference report was adopted. Manuel Qeuzon, Philippine dele gate, told the House the bill was a "signal victory for the cause of human liberty and a very decisive step toward the complete emancipation of the Fili pino people." DECORATED FOR SINKING 100 SHIPS OF ALLIES Amsterdam, via London. In recog nition of his sinking of 100 vessels of the Entente Allies, Captain-Lieutenant Walter Forstmamn, comander of a German submarine has been given the Order of Pour le Merite by the Ger man emperor, says a Berlin dispatch received here. The ships sunk by him, including war vessels, aggregated 260, 000 tons and their value is estimated at 30,000,000 pounds sterling the dia patch adds. .i - ... i , ... ,,,., i , . , ., HEALTH EXPERTS PLAN BIG FIGHT VIGOROUS CAMPAIGN TO PRE VENT FURTHER SPREAD OF INFANTILE PARALYSIS. HEALTH AUTHORITIES MEET Resolutions Adopted at Meeting. Ex press No Alarm That Epedemic Might Become Countrywide, Prepare Against Widespread Outbreak. Washington. Plans for a more vig orous campaign to prevent further spread of infantile paralysis were made here at a conference of health authorities of most of the states with officials of the Federal Public Health Service. Resolutions were adopted by the conference in which eminent plague experts, scientists and bacteriologists are participating outlined different proposals for checking dissemination of the disease. Few of those praient expressed alarm that the epidemic might assume countrywide proportions, but they uniformly declared measures were neeessary to guard against a wide spread outbreak. Admission was freely made by many experts that the cause cf the plague is unknown and the means of its transmission not con clusively determined. Uniformity of regulations for trav el on railroad trains, steamships and other carriers, was urged by Secre tary McAdfJo of the Treasury De partment in opening the conference and while several speakers held that general quarantine again passengers from the Eastern infected -areas was unnecessary, the conference probably will recommend a system of uniform inspection, issuance of health certifi cates and co-operatitfa between Fed reals and State health and railroad authorities toard safeguarding trav el. Medical representatives of a doz en large trunk lines urged the con ference to assist in securing uniform traffic rules. A national survey presented by the state delegates showed 11,717 cases in 38 states reporting, inccluding cases since January 1. Following is a summary of con ditions in Southern States. North Carolina Dr. W. S. Rankin, 20 cases; two deaths; conditions not unusual, except five cases in one town in last three weeks. Only two cases traceable to New York. Seven teen deaths last year. No quarantine against Eastern States. South Carolina Dr. J. E. Hayne 18 cases in July and 37 in August with none before. Developing in Wagner and Springfield districts. No state quarantine but rigid intrastate travel regulations. Virginia Dr. E. G. Williams, 10 cases in June and 19 in July; only one attributable to importation. Lo cal but not state quarantine. More cases in 1915 and sporadic since every month. SENATORS URGE U. S. BOND ISSUE OF $130,000,000 Unexpected Recommendation In Con gress to Meet Mexican Expenditures. Washington. A bond issue of $130, 000,000 to meet extraordinary govern ment expenditures due to the Mexican Situation was unexpectedly recom mended to Congress by majority mem bers of the Senate finance committee with the concurrer ce of the treasury department. The bond issue Js urged in the report of the finance committee Dem ocrats filed in the S nate late today on the $205,000,000 revenue bill. In addi tion to the proposed ssue and the reve nue bill the finance committee asserts -v.o a f mtVitvp tmnTvy nidation of $86,000,- L-iiii 1 xr Xr r 000 will be necessai y to oerray tne ex pense of operatior.R in the Mexican emergency if condi, ions on the border continue as they are now after Decem ber 31 1916. The $.130,000,000 to be provided by the propped bond issue the report says, will .neet Mexican expenditures only until vhe end of this calendar year. BUFFALO WINS NEXT EAGLES' CONVENTION. Savannah Rex B. Goodcell, San Bernardino, Cal., was chosen grand worthy president and Buffalo, N. Y., was awarded the 1917 convention at the eighteen annual meeting of the Grand Aerie of the Fraternal Order of Eagles here. Harry J. Lemcke, Sagi naw, Mich., was chosen grand worthy chaplain over Harry E. McUrgh, Cin cinnati. J. S. Perry, San Francisco, was chosen grand secretary. DEUTSCHLAND REPORTED SEEN OFF GRAND BANKS Boston The sighting of a large sub marine believed to be the German merchantman Deutschland off the Grand Banks Saturday was reported by members of the crew of the Warren liner Sachem, in trom Liverpool. The submersible was traveling in a north easterly direction at moderate speed. Soon alter the submarine was sighted the steamer was turned toward her, the Sachem's officers believing at first that she was a dismantled vessel. ALLIES ADVANCE BY TRIPLE BLOW FRENCH AND BRITISH STRIKE WITH TERRIFIC FORCE ON SOMME FRONT. STORM GERMAN TRENCHES Teutons Are Driven Back 300 to 500 Yards. Allies Are Now Near the Big Railroad Town of Combles. Quiet on Other Fronts. London. The French and British striking with terrific force in three di rections on the Somme Croat, have stormed nearly three miles of German trences, driving forward at points to a depth of 300 to 500 yads. The most important gains were made by the British and French troops striking north from the point where the Allied lines meet. Maure pas and Clery, two of the most impor tant points held by the Germans in this sector, have been flanked on both sides. ' The road has also been reached be tween Maurepas and Guillemont, the latter town being the immediate ob jective of the British.. This advance, if maintained, brings the Allies direct ly in front of the large railroad town of Sombles. South of the Somme, the French stormed German trenches over a length of about three-quarters of a mile, driving forward in a southerly direction from Belloy-on Santerre. Paris reports that a considerable num ber of prisoners were taken in these operations. For the first time in many days no important action is reported from the Russian front and the same dearth of news prevails in regard to the Italian Operations, The most important item of news regarding the Italian advance against Triest is contained in a news dispatch from Milan, which says that German troops are to be employed in the defense of the big Austrian port. If corroborated, this means that Italy and Germany will at last enter into an active state of war. VIRGINIA SOLDIER SLAIN; MEXICAN GIRL SHOT. Dead Man Attacked as He Responded to Call For Help From Girl. Brownsville, Texas. Corporal Jas. Clement, C Company, Second Virginia Regiment, was shot and killed here and Sofia Valdez, a Mexican girl, was probably fatally wounded by another corporal assigned to the quartermas ter's corps of the regular army. A corporal who gave his name as Dun ches was pursued by a posse two miles and his trail lost. Later he appeared at the county jail and surrendered. Corporal Clement, who was 28 years of age, came from Warrenton, Va., and is survived by his widow. Relatives of the Valdez girl declare she was threatened with violence af ter she had repulsed advances alleg ed to have been made by Dunches and called for assistance. Just as Clement appeared to aid the girl, Dun ches, it is charged, opened fire, wound ing the young woman and killing Clement. GARARD MARSHALL CONVICTED OF ACCEPTING BRIBE. Glrard, Ala. City Marshall John Oakes of Girard was convicted at Seale, Ala., on charges of accepting bribes for the protection of liquor dealers here and on testimony given at the trial. Mayor Earl Morgan and City Clerk I. A. Weaver were later arrested on similar charges. They were released under bonds of $2,500 each. The Girard city council voted to tax illegal liquor venders in Girard $25 a month and instructed Oakes to collect this amount, according to testimony. Oakes testified that the council instructed him to make these collections and he admitted receiving money under these instructions. Oakes was remanded to jail to await sentence. Conviction carries with it a penitentiary term of from three to ten years. U. S. EXPLAINS DELAY IN NAMING BORDER BOARD. Mexico City. Foreign Minister Aguilar received a communication from the American State Department explaining the delay in the appoint ment of the American conferences to the international conference between Mexico and the United States. The communication explained that several men of high standing and position whom it had been desired to appoint were unable to accept because of other engagements. , RAILWAY SUPERINTENDENTS ELECT NEW PRESIDENT Memphis, Tenn. W. S. Williams of Carbondale, Ill was elected presi dent of the American Association of Railway Superintendents at the open ing session "of their annual convention here. The possibility of a genera? railroad strike prevented a majority of members attending the convention Other officers named were: C. E Rickey, Chincinnati, 1st V.-Pres.; A G. Smart, Beardstown, 111., 2nd V. Pres.; E. H. Hamon, Sec.Treas. WILL GUT EXPENSE TO EQUAL INCOME STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE v STRUGGLING WITH FINANCIAL TROUBLES. QUIT FARMERS INSTITUTES Will Close Down or Sell Seven or Eight Test Farms Bulletin Ser vice to be Curtailed. Raleigh. The state board of agri culture concluded a two-days' confer ence for retrenchment, economy and ffciency in the affairs of the depart ment, especially to overcome an im pending shortage of over $20,000 in the receipts for the six months' budget period ending December 1, due to fall ing off in fertilizer tax receipts on ac count of the European war. The board adopted recommenda tions of the efficiency committee which included C. S. Mitchell, Clarence Poo, S. P. Latham and A. T. McCallum, with the result that the soil survey in co-operation with the Federal govern ment is to be discontinued after De cember 1, the farmers' institutes are to be dropped and more attention given to the extension work through the A. & M. College and the experi ment station and there is to be a grad ual closing down and sale of the seven or eight test farms that the depart ment now operates in diff ernt sec- x tions of the state at an annual expen diture of $20,000 or more by the de partment over and above the earnings of the farms themselves. The Blantire farm In Buncombe is to be the first to be sold, but th board definitely adopted a policy to rid itself of the farms on the theory that this method of aiding the prog ress of farm methods has served its days and that there shall be instead, co-operation with farm life schools, and neighborhood demonstrations that can be carried Into infinitely more communities at far less expense and more effective according to the advo cates of this change. The plan is to be done with "commercial farming" as soon as possible and concentrate on neighborhod demonstrations. Another economy is to be In print ing bulletins and other literature. It is estimated that $3,000 can be saved in this direction. Altogether the board estimates that economies around $20,000 are affected without serious Inroads on the efficiency and effective' ness of the departmental work. N. C. Bankers In Conference. Raleigh. In session all afternoon with more than one hundred bankers present representing all sections of the state, a special c-..ference of North Carolina bankers adopted reso lutions approving the general scope of the Federal reserve act. Urging necessity of modification of section sixteen, so as to allow reasonable col lection charges; disapproving and un alterably opposing the colelction of items at par through postoffices or other like channels; favoring reason able colection charges; favoring prompt remittances by all collecting banks; declaring that small state banks have a proper place in the life of business in rural communities and are entitled to be free from injustice and discrimination and directing the president of the association to appoint a committee of three bankers to work with the president and secretary as a steering committee with plenary pow er to promote the attainment of the adjustment of banking conditions as favored in the resolutions. President W. S. Blakeney of Monroe told the bankers he called the con ference for no vague or flippant rea son but to deal with a real problem. He approved the great aims of the fed eral reserve which he said, will pre vent panics, distribute the money power over tre country and give a flexible currency. He regretted that the federal reserve .board has gone too far and ignored the necessities of banks in adjustments for clearance of checks. He believed that the state and the national associations of bank ers can speak out on this matter and compel just adjustments. 8afety First Talka. Raleigh. Commissioner of Insur ance James R. Young has gone for a trip to Winston-Salem to personally look into some difficulties about hav ing fire escapes suitably installed on one and another of the buildings there. He goes from the Twin-City to Lexing ton and Salisbury to make "safety first" talks before the teachers gather ed for teachers' institutes. The com missioner sent Sherwood Brockwell to Brunswick, Columbus, Bladen, Union and Chatham counties to attend teach ers' institutes. Toxaway Inn Closes. Asheville Toxaway Inn, the famous hotel located on the shores of what was once Lake Toxaway, closed, many of the guests going to Fairfield Inn and others coming to Asheyille. The Southern Railway furnished Pull mans to bring out the guests who de sired to come this way. Richard Jen nings of Pittsburg, a son of E. H. Jen uings, the owner, is on hi3 way here and will personally take charge of the property. He will issue an announce ment upon his arrival as to whether or not he will rebuild the lake dam.
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